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Monday, 9 June 2014

Official Announcement for 6th e-Sports World Championship BAKU 2014

According to the MSSA, the IeSF has now finalized the Official game titles, Participation conditions, Prize pool and Uniform Regulations for the 6th e-Sports World Championship BAKU 2014, which are follows,

2. Prize Pool- The Board of IeSF decided the total Prize Pool for 6th e-Sports World Championship BAKU 2014 as $ 100,000 USD, which is the biggest size of IeSF’s history ever.- The Prize Pool is divided into two categories: Winning Nations by Overall Performance and Winners by each game title- All Categories of Prize will be distributed to the related Member National Federation, and the such National Federation can distribute the Prize to the related players in accordance with the contract between NF and the Player.- For more details of Prize Distribution, please see below table:

1) Category for Winners by Each Game Title

Game

1st

2nd

3rd

Total

Male

DOTA 2

$25,000

$15,000

$10,000

$50,000

SC2

$5,000

$3,000

$2,000

$10,000

SF4

$5,000

$3,000

$2,000

$10,000

HS

$5,000

$3,000

$2,000

$10,000

Female

SC2

$2,500

$1,500

$1,000

$5,000

TTT2

$2,500

$1,500

$1,000

$5,000

Overall Performance

$5,000

$3,000

$2,000

$10,000

Total

$100,000 USD

This means that the MWEB Protea Team will have not only national honour for which to play, bt cold hard cash as well!

It will indeed be interesting to see if the Protea Team is up to the task.